_Cambridge, Mass._
1333. In going along the street or path, where there is a tree, go inside
rather than outside the tree, for you will be disappointed if you take
the latter course.
_Eastern Massachusetts._
1334. In drinking water, if you glance over the glass, you are a flirt.
_Pennsylvania._
1335. Whistling girls and crowing hens
Always come to some bad ends.
_General in the United States._
1336. Whistling girls and sheep
Are the very worst cattle a farmer can keep.
1337. A whistling girl and a laughing sheep,
Are the very best property a man can keep.
_Northern Ohio._
1338. Girls that whistle and hens that crow
Make their way wherever they go.
1339. Whistle before you eat,
Cry before you sleep.
_Baldwinsville, N.Y._
BODILY AFFECTIONS.
1340. If the right cheek burns, some one is speaking well of you; if the
left, they are speaking ill of you; if both, they speak well and ill at
once. Moisten the finger in the mouth and touch it to the cheek, naming
those whom you suspect; the one at whose name it grows cool was speaking
of you.
_New Brunswick._
1341. If your right ear burns, some one is talking well of you; if your
left, he is talking ill.
_General in the United States._
1342. If you bite the corner of your apron, you will make back-biters
bite their tongues.
_Pennsylvania.
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